The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05

Union Chapel, Spdrkss Oduon.-he'. Miar
j. Law, of Epworth 1. NJ Church, Baltimore, wi
preach at Union Chapel, Sparks's Station, Sun
day, March 9th, at u o'clock p. m.
Sales advertised ip "Tbe UqiOp."
Saturday, March S, by Messrs. Boarman s. Val
Bibber, trustees, tract of land and improve
ments in Hartford county, belonging to Alder
Tuesdav. March sth, by Lewis Ahrens, on the
Dover Road. valuable mules horses, wagons
Tuesday, March sth, by Thos. c. Biddison. auc
tioneer, personal property OF VIM. Erzgraber
on 'AvOndale Farm, PatapSco NECK
Tuesday, March Sth, by J. w. Hook, on Pimlict
road, Sd district, stock, utensils, ETC..
Wednesday, March 9. by Joshua M. Shelley, OF
road from Oregon to Butler, horses, COWS, Wag
ons, furniture, etc.
wednesday, March 9th, by NJ. W. Offutt trustee
farm and store stand in Phoenix, belonging tt
the estate of John G. Patterson.
Wednesday, March 9, by c. B. johnson, on Dula
ny's Valley turnpike. near Gen. Trimble' s farm
mules horses Ms SoWs S wagons pg So e5e Bddson
auctioneer, personal property of Peter Fink, or
German Hill road, 18th DISTRICT.
Thursday, March 10, by j. l.. Shrimp, at Copper
Factory, Hartford pike, lumber, rims, shafts
horse. &C., &c.
the farm of Thos. Gladman, in the I'd district.
Friday, March ii, by Chas. E. Parks, near Texas
live stock, farm Implements etc.
Monday March L. by Timothy shanahan oppo
BILE personal property of all kinds.
Tuesday, March 18th, by D: Hopper Emory, trus
Tuesday, March 18th, by S. Parker Bosley, attor
neynamed in mortgage, house and lot in Home
wednesday, March 16, by John ]. Jones s. Bros.
on Pot Spring road, valuable live stock, farm
implements, etc.
Thursday. March II, by Alfred G. Lee, on his farm
at Merediths Ford, miles north of Towson-
town. valuable stock farm implements. etc.
Saturday, March 18th, by D. q. Mcintosh, trus-
tee real estate in Reisterstown.
Monday, March q, by Joseph Uylnk, on chestnut
Ridge, personal property OF all Kinds
Tuesday, March 22d, by p. G: Hawkins, auction
Ger, real estate in 9TH DISTRICT belonging TO tne
Monday, March IS, by NJ. W. Offutt, attorney
named in mortgage, valuable farm in the Attn
district.
The March term of the Circuit Court CON-
mences next Monday.
Our next county fair will commence on the
9th of September and continue four days.
-Sleighs were running in some sections oil
Baltimore county last Sunday and Monday.
A branch of Perkins Square Baptist Church.
Baltimore, was organized at Waverly, last Sunday
County Treasurer Hebb, who had been i'll
for some time was able to be at his Office this week
Over 100000 have passed through the
Towson National Bank since it was opened, only
few months ago.
At a public sale near Towsontown one day
this week a spring tooth harrow that was bought
new q year ago for 81, sold for $3.50.
Rev. Watson Case, pastor of Towsontown
M. E. Church, preached at the Home for the Aged,
Baltimore, on Wednesday afternoon last.
Arrangements are being madeto commence
the new hotel on Emory Grove camp ground 1t
will have front of 125 feet and depth of 40
feet.
The Frederick turnpike, between Balti-
more and Catonsvile, is said to be in a wretched
condition, great ruts being cut into it in many
Mr.. William T. Curtis has resigned the
postmastership at St. James, Baltimore county,
and Mr.. Thos. J. Miller is recommended as his
successor.
There have been over one hundred CONVEX
sions during the revival meeting which has been
in progress at Woodberry M. E. Church for about
six weeks past.
Thos Mahool, constable for the 9th district, vice
John Willis, resigned, and VIM. H. Knight for
the 18th district.
The fare on the railway from Gainesville
to Baltimore is now Is cents for the single trip,
but there is talk of reducing it to 10 cents, with
better service than at present.
Mr.. Ephraim Gilbert and Miss Mary King,
ofHarford county, were married at Trinity Church
rectory, Towsontown, on Wednesday morning
last, BY Rev. W. Fl. II. Powers.
Mr.. A. H. Barnitz, of Mt. Washington,
who had been clerk in the U. S. sub treasury at
Baltimore for sixteen years, has been obliged to
resign H IF failipSS health
proprietor of the 9-Mile House, on the York turn
pike, will regret to learn that he is suffering Sc
verely from a carbuncle on his back.
The postofice to be called "Knoebel," at
Knoebeps store, on the Monor road between Union
Vile and Sweet Air, has been established, with
Mr.. Henry w. Knoebel as postmaster.
Rev. J. Fred Heisse, of West Hartford Cir
cult, will deliver an address on temperance in
Monkton NJ. e. Church, Thursday evening, March
10th, at u O'Clock. All cordially invited.
Mrs. Cover, of Virginia, formerly Miss
Temperance Matthews), is visiting her brothers,
Messrs. D. M and Joshua M. Matthews, and her
sister, Mrs. John G. Booth, in Dulany's Valley.
During the month of February the rain
fall in the vicinity of Baltimore was 4.69 inches
The highest velocity of wind was thirty-four
miles per hour, reached on the 11th of the month
"A resident of the Sth district, who has five
or six grown sons, named four of them as follows
Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, P. L. Beauregard
and Stonewall Jackson, the latter just about of age
-Ex. Gov. William Smith, who paid visit
to VIM. S. Keech, ESQ.,, of Towsontown, about two
weeks ago, is now lying critically i'll at his resi-
dence Warrenton, Va. He is nearly ninety years
of age.
Mr.. M. d. Wilson, who formerly owned
the Glen Ellen estate, on the Dulany's Valley
pike, has lately made a number of building i'm,
provements upon his farm, near Finksburg, Car
roll county.
The Maryland Central railroad is now only
selling round trip tickets to two principal stations
on the road-Towsontown and Belair. Round
trip tickets to all other points on the road have
been called in.
Thomas Cuddy, who was injured while re-
moving stone from the embankment at the Boun-
dairy avenue station of the Maryland Central rail-
road, has sued the contractor, Elijah Bishop, for
$1,000 damages.
The petit jury for the December term of
court was discharged finally ON Friday of last
week. Their grand Ground up" before leaving
Towsontown on the afternoon of that day was
quite q spirited affair.
Tie roads all over the county are said to
be in worse condition just now than they were al
most ever known before Even the turnpkes are
bad, being terribly cut up in ruts, rendering travel
anything but pleasant.
DR.. James Fl. Parker, who died in Balti-
more few days ago, aged So years, was native
of Virginia, but had resided in Baltimore since
1873 His first wife was Miss Alice Lee sister Of
Col. Ohio S. Lee, of Belair.
Mr.. Charles Fl. Sheridan who farms the
late Mr.. Samuel Chew's property, near Towson-
town, brought on from Germantown, Pa, few
days ago, three Shetland ponies and two fine cows
which arrived at the farm in good order.
MIR. j. N. Henderson, sewing machine agent
of this place, has procured the agency for the
Iight-running domestic" sewing machine and hi:
Office is decorated with samples Of embroidery and
etching, which the public is invited to inspect
The citizens of Glyndon, 4th district, are
moving for the formation of building associa
ton. preliminary meeting was held last Sat.
urday and it is expected that permanent organ
ization will be effected this Saturday. evening.
1t is said the ground hog will have nothing
with which to drive away the flies next summer
His tail was frozen off last Monday morning, and
stump tailed ground hog is just about as much
use as the unfortunate bovine we some time hear
about
The statement of County Treasurer Hebt
for the month of February makes the following
exhibit: Cash on hand January 31st, $53, 764.17
receipts from all sources, $7,727.92; disburse
ments, $35, 362.62; balance on hand March LIST
$26, 129.47.
Mrs. Frances E. Curtis died at her residence
near Monkton, My Lady's Manor, on the 26tt
ult., in the 18th year of her age. She was thu
widow of the late Eli Curtis, and daughter of tht
late Nicholas and Charlotte Merryman, of Balti
more county.